Historic ANARE ship-based wildlife observations from 1947 to 1982.

Ship-based observations of birds, seals and whales from the original 'ANARE Bird Log' books have been recovered into a single repository of sightings and associated abiotic information. ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) is the historic acronym for these voyages. A few voyages have been included that were not part of ANARE but have Australian observers or volunteer

observers.

Voyages start from the 1947/48 austral season up to 1982/83 with an average of 3 voyages per season. There are a few voyages where there is no data. It is not known if either no bird observations were undertaken during this period or that the bird logs exist if observations were undertaken.

Current counts are birds, seals and whales

Observing platforms include the following ships - Wyatt Earp, Tottan, River Fitzroy, Norsel, Kista Dan, Thala Dan, Magga Dan, Nella Dan, Lady Franklin and Nanok S and a single voyage from the private yacht Solo.

The quality and quantity of abiotic data associated with observations such as air temperature, sea ice cover etc vary immensely from voyage to voyage. Where possible this data has been entered.

This dataset contains very little information on estimates of survey effort and cannot be used to derive useful presence/absence spatial coverages of species during this period. It is purely sighting data only.

Identification info

Alternate title: Historic ANARE ship-based wildlife observations from 1947 to 1982.

Date (Publication): 2021-05-31

Edition: 1

Citation identifier

Dataset DOI

Title: Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system

Date (Publication): 2012-04-23

Citation identifier: ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier: doi:10.4225/15/5a4ee9579845c

Originator

Watts, D.J. and Woehler, E.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

WATTS, DAVE JOHN

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Castray Esplanade

Hobart

Tasmania

7000

Australia

+61 3 6232 5062

Principal investigator

WOEHLER, ERIC

Birds Tasmania

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Collaborator

WATTS, DAVE JOHN

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Castray Esplanade

Hobart

Tasmania

7000

Australia

+61 3 6232 5062

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/DB_Historic_WoV

Status: Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution: 10

Topic category

Biota
Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 1947-06-01 1982-12-31

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES

Keywords

ANARE
Bird sightings

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

SHIPS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

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Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees: Free

Planned available datetime: 2021-05-31T00:00:00

Units of distribution: MB

Transfer size: 8.3

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Resource lineage

Statement: The quality of the data are varied as they have originate from multiple sources and have been combined into one database. No implicit quality levels have been set. Only observations where the identification of the animal appears certain have been entered. There are however many observations that are recorded against generic species types such as Shearwater sp. or Prion sp. Position data varies. The observers from the first voyages typically logged positions at ship's local noon. The later voyages, from 1975 onwards, improved the position accuracy by recording positions during each hourly observation. For observations without a directly recorded position, the inferred position has been derived from interpolation from the adjacent recorded positions. Most ships in the open ocean travel in fairly consistent directions, especially in fair weather. The error's from such interpolations is at most likely to be less than 60 km for those interpolations done from 24 hour data gaps and substantially less for voyages where there is an hourly log of positions. The vast majority of the observations have been recorded using local ship time with an unknown correction to UTC. On ANARE voyages, as the ship travels over longitude, local ship clocks are migrated forward or back one hour during night time when it is most convenient for day-based activities. This also coincidentally occurs when there are few observations attempted due to low light or darkness. The only exception is the short period around summer solstice. Assuming the estimate of UTC from the ship clock based on longitude of the observation is at most one hour in error and that ships travel at most 12 knots, then a position error based on this timing issue will be less than 20 km (12 nautical miles). It is most likely that this error is nearer 30 minutes of longitude with an associated spatial error in longitude of less than 10km. Given the size of the surveyed region (longitude 40 east to 170 east, distance at 60 deg south of approx 7,000 km), then derived positional errors are small compared to the scale of the region or associated oceanographic features such as polar fronts. A few observations are associated with land features (e.g. Macquarie Island) and their position errors are substantially smaller than the mid-ocean observations.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2012-06-08 - record created by Dave Watts. 2018-01-05 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates. 2019-04-05 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance. 2022-10-04 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/DB_Historic_WoV

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

WATTS, DAVE JOHN

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Castray Esplanade

Hobart

Tasmania

7000

Australia

+61 3 6232 5062

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 05d97429-0990-4acb-b4a5-f16527780a32

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2022-10-04T15:42:38

Identifier

Description: metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 8.6

Metadata linkage: http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/DB_Historic_WoV
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 2012-06-06T00:00:00

Date info (Last Update): 2022-10-04

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

Edition: 2014

Other citation details: Version 1

Title: DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile

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